South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-15
ALL ABOUT EARS.
Points About Them Which
Every One Does Not Know.
Changes Wrought By Time in Aurioular
Appsadage,.

Appsndage'.
A writer in Hirper's Bzar says: "A
curious proposition has been male by
the chief OF police of one of the large
European cities, that photographs OF
criminals should be taken, not with the
full face ms now. but with the side face
in view, using the car especially, other
features changing with the course OF
timo-i mouth falling, an eye sinking, a
nose projecting. brow growing promi-
nent, check either basgy or hollow.
chin either pointed or doubling, but an
ear always remaining unchanged into old
age, and no two ear, being alike; so.
that thief would be known by his ear
as long as there was anything left OF
him.
'This would seem 10 involve a singu-
lar error on the part of those who follow
such hasty advice. No organs, any close
observer will declare, changes shape
more than the car docs. Even the
piercing OF the lobe for earrings will
often pull it down and inf tic it so as to
work complete transformation there; and
anybody who has u equity acquaintance
may see the change wrought In the ears
10y the chalky Jumps and concretions
under the skin that never fail to show
themselves there, that sometimes attain
the size of the curious little notch seen
in the upper edge of many ears, and said
by those who have faith in the intrica-
cies of evolution to the remnant of the
ancestral ear of the apish pvogcnitor.
Few features Of tho human body nre
more distinctly beautiful than the ear,
when it is beautiful car; that is to say
when it is rosy and little, and so thin
that the b.ocd glows behind it like a
flame. No sea shell with its myriad del
cate whorIs, with its pink and white,
with polish and brittle daintiness, is
half so lovely, for no sea shell, after all,
is alive when We see il, or when it has
reached that stage of beauty. But the
ear in lis perfection has the white throat
beneath it, tho ustcring hair above il,
the damask check besiic it. and it is set
off and heightened in every line and tip
by its surroundings, and as often asyhot
has the eye of the beholdcr fastehcd 10
it on the point of quivering Jewel gut
tcring in it. Yet, let the ear be ever 50
small aud curly bit of transparency !"
the young gir!---le will DC w
ceptional case, if, when she ha'at'a'he"
the arc that makes caps advisable, she
is not glad OF the cap TO hide large pa'
piece of cartilage on either side OF her
head-not the least disagrecable 81 the
disaorecao,e things thai have COMO to
her rs warning and evidences % the end
of all things. THIS IS not the case with
every person, OF course; enough people
to proVt the rule retain
sufficient shape to the
ear into old age; but by far the greater
number of ears cease to be obj ,cts on
which the eye Of another cares TO linger,
and become objects which make every
contemporary put up hand TO see if his
/ ONh tdio hdNN buiHSN ibto hdl'o W
| phantinc proportions. AS life goes on,
every year uncrrls and straightens out
the pretty whorls OF most ears, and flat
tens, and seems 50 10 enlarge, the upper
and outer edge, perhaps not through
| growth, not even through the daily wip-
ing of the part, as much, IS through the
| LOST OF fat in the tissues and the falling
away Of neighboriug roundness and
p umpncss; the one rendering the carti-
| lagc smooth, the other making it seem
larger than it is by comparison. In
either event, the car of the criminal
to-day viii hardly be the same car to
appearances ten years from to-day--will
be very different ear in twenty years.
The ears of elderly persons tell the sad
tale to any who care to scrutinize them
| in efficient numbers 10 gencralze from
what is seen, and any one who chooses
may rcgretfuily watch the process ms
time passes, which transforms ono of the
choicest features of physical charm ipso
| ono of the urliest